Showing posts with label Kenya. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kenya. Show all posts

Tuesday, 23 December 2025

#540: A thorny problem

Kenya's Samburu county has marginal land which is prone to desertification. 

To try to keep it in place, they decided to introduce a thorny tree called mathenge (also known as mesquite).

This article looks at what happened next.

Mathenge was planted... and got a little out of control.


#707: A requiem for Sycamore Gap

Robert MacFarlane has finished work on “The World Tree”, the libretto for a long choral work originally inspired by the felling of the Syca...